10 Actors Who Had To Try Hard To Embody Their Characters

What is a typical day like for an actor? Autographs, award ceremonies, filming with amazing directors and talented colleagues? In fact, not everything is so simple. There are often strict diets, rehearsals several times a day and the development of complex skills in a short time. Sometimes they even eat raw liver or accompany an autopsy.

O awesome.club admires the perseverance of actors who are ready to learn new skills for their roles and work in far from comfortable conditions. For their efforts alone, they deserve a reward!

Daniel Radcliffe played the lead role in In the jungle, which is inspired by real events. The production tells the story of a group of friends who got lost in the Amazon jungle. The character Radcliffe played lost about 30 pounds in real life. The actor wanted to show the character’s suffering in the most believable way, so he voluntarily remained on a strict diet during filming. And just before the shoot, he didn’t eat anything for two days.

90% of the movie scenes Drifting Lives occurred in the open sea, two hours from the coast. At the same time, shooting began at 4 am and lasted 12 hours. According to the actress, due to severe seasickness, the entire film crew (except for the director and operator) often suffered from dizziness and vomiting.

To delve into the character of the thief hiding from justice, Robert Pattinson had to forget about comfort: “I lived in the basement of an apartment building in Harlem, just like my character, for two months, I didn’t open the curtains even once, I didn’t change the sheets, I slept in my clothes and only ate canned tuna. It was all there was: tuna, hot sauce and coffee.”

For the role of Tywin Lannister in game of Thrones, Charles Dance had to master an unusual skill. To film a scene, Dance learned to skin a deer and, as the actor himself emphasized, he did very well.

For your role in Byzantium — An Eternal Life, Saoirse Ronan learned to play the piano from scratch. She impressed the director by mastering a complex Beethoven sonata in just 12 weeks, even though she had never played a musical instrument before. You can gauge her skill in this clip.

Margot Robbie took lessons from a diver to learn how to keep breathing underwater for the film Suicide squad🇧🇷 To shoot the necessary scene, the actress was required not to breathe for a few minutes, and Robbie learned to hold her breath for 5 minutes.

DiCaprio’s Oscar-winning role was anything but simple for the actor. He had to eat a raw bison liver (although he is a vegetarian), learned to shoot a musket, suture wounds, and speak two Native American languages. But that’s not all: add constant cold, diving into a frozen river and carrying a heavy bear skin to the filming process.

To delve into your character in the movie Skyscraper: Unlimited Courage, Tom Hiddleston was present at a real autopsy. The actor claims that if you have to show something on screen, you should do it in such a way that an expert says: “Yes, that’s how it’s done”. It doesn’t matter what it is, making an omelette or an autopsy.

To play Katniss Everdeen, Jennifer Lawrence actively trained twice a day and learned to shoot a bow. She also went through a special obstacle course course, in which she had to jump and climb trees.

Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar for his role as scientist Stephen Hawking. Preparing for the scenes wasn’t simple: the actor not only studied the physique’s life for months, but also learned to walk and talk like a person suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Redmayne spent a lot of time with patients who had been diagnosed with the disease and also relied on a dance coach and singing teacher to convey the movements and language of a person with this disease.

If you were an actor or actress, what would you be willing to do for a role in a movie?